07.29.08
Death Race 2008: Extra Action, Hold the Satire, Please
You know those jokes you and your friends make about scoring extra points based on who you hit while driving? Well, you may or may not be aware that these jokes originate with Roger Corman’s movie Death Race 2000, a cult classic described as a mixture of horror and farce.
The premise of Death Race 2000 is a future America (2000 was the future in 1975) under a totalitarian government which sponsors the eponymous race as a sort of gladiatorial distraction from the oppression. As the trailer below here shows, it’s done in a quite farcical faction, but nevertheless there is some social commentary in there.
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